Waimate Cricket Club

Waimate had a home game against competition leaders Timaru and batted first with Naffa 33 shaking off Friday nights excesses, Reuben Allan 32, Hayden Matthews with 22 getting off a run of ducks and Craig Booth a solid 37 allowing the team to be semi pleased at 161-6.

But ‘Rafferty Fox’ finally got his bat to do some talking as he found No 8 in the order to his liking, as well as the Timaru bowlers on his way to easily his highest score for Waimate (afternoon grades) of 99, and will no doubt be bitterly disappointed he didn’t get that extra run to feature on the Honours Board before departing for the Coast and a new job.

His innings (well supported by Chucky Sew Hoy with 16 not out) helped Waimate score 285 in their first innings.

The match is now poised at an interesting stage with Jordy Morrow (80*) and Hitesh Angrish (38*) batting when Timaru resume their innings next week on 135-3 and they may look to try and consolidate their position at the top of the table by targeting first innings points, but Alan Reid who already has all three wickets to fall will be looking for a good ‘bag’ for himself and to put Waimate in the box seat and get themselves off the bottom of the table.

Waimate
N Sew Hoy c Sanders b Morrow 33
R van Royen c Mackle b Sanders 4
R Allan c Sanders b Smallridge 32
H Matthews c Leonard b Morrow 22
C Booth c Brookland b Morrow 37
A Reid b Angrish 1
J Sew Hoy b Smallridge 30
R Fox c Piddock b Morrow 99
S Devlin c Mackle b Morrow 0
R Ford b Leonard 0
M Sew Hoy not out 16
Extras (16b, 3lb, 4w) 23
Total (for 10 wkts) 285
Fall: 32, 42, 89, 107, 111, 161, 250, 256, 261, 285.
Bowling: H Leonard 14-2-80-1, Z Sanders 4-1-23-1, J Morrow 12.5-2-46-5, H Angrish 22-5-53-1, J Smallridge 16-3-60-2.

Timaru
G Piddock c Devlin b Reid 6
J Morrow not out 80
H Butler b Reid 0
G Brookland c Devlin b Reid 0
H Angrish not out 38
Extras (9lb, 1w, 1nb) 11
Total (for 3 wkts) 135
Bowling: A Reid 12-2-39-3, R Ford 5-0-27-0, R Fox 7-0-41-0, J Sew Hoy 3-0-10-0, R Allan 3-0-7-0, R van Royen 1-0-5-0.

Waimate Ladies were all out for 118 chasing 174 for victory against Craighead in their first game back since Christmas at Aorangi 2, but Cindy Halkett had lost none of her form unfortunately falling short of her fifty with 46 but at least having the bragging rights at home after outscoring her partner who had 3 chances in the long weekend.

Bronwyn Clark was the best of the Waimate bowlers with 2-19 off 6 overs.

Craighead 173
C Buckman 45, M Linton 42, D Mulcahy 36
B Clark 6 0 19 2, C Mercer 6 0 29 1, S Smillie 6 1 24 0

Waimate 118 C Halkett 46, S Smillie 16, B Clark 15
M Linton 6 0 11 2, D Mulcahy 6 0 27 3, C Buckman 6 2 10 0

Murray Prattley used the experience gained watching Twenty20 all day Friday as a warm up for his own batting on Saturday as he scored 50 helping Waimate easily chase down the 128 Celtic had been restricted to.

Connor Farrell followed up his fifty from a fortnight ago with 31 while Tim Suddaby continued on from his fifty the week before with 20 not out to get Waimate home safely with six wickets in hand.

All the bowlers contributed, but Sam Newman was the most successful with 4-26.

Celtic 128
A Bailey 39, S Wallace 30, H Curtis 20
S Newman 5 0 26 4, Z Aikman 7 0 27 2, B Devine 6 1 16 1

Waimate 132-4
M Prattley 50, C Farrell 31, T Suddeby 20*
M Caple 6 0 38 2, S Wallace 5 1 19 1, D Fridd 2 0 9 1

It is with great sadness that the Waimate Cricket Club extend their deepest regrets and condolences to the Tangiora family after the tragic loss of Wiremu last Friday.

Wiremu was a member of the Waimate Fourth Grade cricket team who are currently leading the competition, and I am sure he would be pleased to know that his team dedicated their win at the weekend to ‘Woody’.

Wiremu was also a participant in the twilight cricket competition, and had a relaxed approach to batting where he thought that all you had to do was lean back and ‘slap’ it.